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Nebula Photos video:    • I Took 1,024 Photos Of ORION NEBULA!  
Lukomatico video:    • Astrophotography & Integration Time :...  

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00:00 Introduction
01:16 VERY LONG photos are impossible
03:55 Workaround: MANY short photos
04:10 MANY short photos = a long one
08:50 Stacking photos
09:30 Noise and SNR
11:20 How to double SNR
13:45 Brilliant
15:40 Photo capture protocol
17:30 Results
28:35 Diminishing Returns
30:53 Noise reduction results
35:40 What we learned

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